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If You Build It, They Will Walk

Re-engineering slowness back into building design An idea quietly floated by New York City health commissioner Thomas Farley this summer might...

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Best of TreeHugger: The Dark Power of Carbon Nanotubes, How Not to Get Killed on a Bike, and the World's Shiniest New Subways

As a U.K. court rules that belief in global warming is akin to a religious or philosophical conviction, Jaymi worries about the implications of...

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Best of TreeHugger: Unrecycled Recyclables, the Walmart Government, and the Civil Rights Movement of Food

Best of TreeHugger: Unrecycled Recyclables, the Walmart Government, and the Civil Rights Movement of Food

As we enter the home stretch leading up to Copenhagen, with talks moving to Barcelona, initial reports aren't exactly encouraging. Will the United...

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Best of TreeHugger: 350 Around the World, the Car That Stops for People, and the Footprint of Meat is Heavier Than We Thought

Best of TreeHugger: 350 Around the World, the Car That Stops for People, and the Footprint of Meat is Heavier Than We Thought

Windmill wunderkind William Kamkwamba is a big star on TreeHugger, at GOOD, and, it seems, everywhere else these days. When we spoke with him at...

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This Week at TreeHugger: Atwood on a Bleak Future, Smart Grids Go Big Brother, and the War on Pedestrians Heats Up

This Week at TreeHugger: Atwood on a Bleak Future, Smart Grids Go Big Brother, and the War on Pedestrians Heats Up

This week, TreeHugger spoke to Margaret Atwood, wondered what smart grids will mean for our privacy, learned some new ways of dealing with wayward...

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This Week at TreeHugger: Climate Showdown in Bangkok and Water (Fountains) Under the (Solar) Bridge

This Week at TreeHugger: Climate Showdown in Bangkok and Water (Fountains) Under the (Solar) Bridge

Just before he won the Nobel, Obama got dissed at climate talks in Bangkok. TreeHugger spoke with Oxfam's lead climate representative about the...

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This Week in TreeHugger: Arnold's Latest Sequel, The Secrets of Bikeability, Toasting Worldchanging, Bats. vs. Windpower, and How Not to Fry Ourselves

This Week in TreeHugger: Arnold's Latest Sequel, The Secrets of Bikeability, Toasting Worldchanging, Bats. vs. Windpower, and How Not to Fry Ourselves

This week over at TreeHugger, we heard Arnold pushing forests at the sequel to the Governors' Global Climate Summit (not as good as the Terminator...

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This Week in TreeHugger: Bill Clinton Riffs on Emissions during a Slow Climate Week, Plus Brad On Green Building, Byrne On the Cycling-Dog Poop Connection, and Urine on Your Tomatoes

This Week in TreeHugger: Bill Clinton Riffs on Emissions during a Slow Climate Week, Plus Brad On Green Building, Byrne On the Cycling-Dog Poop Connection, and Urine on Your Tomatoes

Treehuggers were all over the map this week: Brian Merchant sat down with Bill Clinton on the sidelines of the Clinton Global Initiative,...

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The Best of Treehugger: Google Targets Cheap Solar, the Local Kinkos for Stuff, and New York's Craziest (Sanest) Building

The Best of Treehugger: Google Targets Cheap Solar, the Local Kinkos for Stuff, and New York's Craziest (Sanest) Building

Google builds its own servers because the commercial ones are too expensive. It's also building solar panels for the same reason—and by...

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